MOSCOW (Dispatches) – U.S. State Department’s remarks made on Aleppo is an attempt to whitewash actions of terrorists in Idlib, Russian Defense Ministry has said in a statement.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the supply schedule of chemical weapons by the Western special services to the terrorists in Syria is synchronized with State Department's statements.
State Department Spokesperson Robert Palladino had earlier claimed in a press release that the forces allied to the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad likely used tear gas against civilians in Aleppo last month.
"The statement by the U.S. State Department is nothing more than an attempt to whitewash the international terrorists operating in Idlib and associated with the White Helmets pseudo-rescuers, who have put their Western patrons in a bad spotlight with their provocation," the Russian military said in a statement.
"The Russian side has irrefutable evidence of the use of munitions filled with toxic agents against the civilian population on November 24, 2018 in Aleppo," the statement stressed.
The Russian Defense Ministry further said the "hysterical" U.S. statement is meant to divert the public attention from the killings of civilians by the U.S. military in eastern Syria and hinder an "unbiased investigation" into the Aleppo attack by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
According to Syrian media reports, more than 100 people were injured as a result of the November 24 attack, which is believed to have been launched from an area controlled by al-Nusra Front terrorists in Idlib Province.
Immediately after the attack, Damascus called on the OPCW to send a fact-finding mission to Aleppo.
Russian experts say they have recovered samples of soil and fragments of buildings to determine the toxic agent used in the assault.
The Russian Defense Ministry said over the past six months it has been informing the public about deliveries of toxic chemicals to terrorists and the White Helmets by the security services of Western governments.
Syria surrendered its entire chemical stockpile in 2013 to a mission led by the OPCW and the UN.
The U.S. has already attacked Syrian army and government positions following alleged chemical spread which Washington has blamed on Damascus.

A woman receives oxygen through respirators following a chemical attack on the neighborhood of al-Khalidiya in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on November 24, 2018.